1. Introduction to Agile Project Management
Vasilij Savin
AACIMP 2011

2. What is a project?

3. The iron triad

4. Questions for
discussion

5. Waterfall Lifecycle

6. Improvement circle

7. Scrum

8. Scrum Roles
Product Owner

9. Scrum Roles
Scrum Master
Product Owner

10. Scrum Roles
Scrum Team
Scrum Master
Product Owner

11. Questions for discussion
When is a task When a project is
complete? considered to be a
(Definition of Done) failure?
(Definition of Success)

12. Scrum

13. ≠

14. Agile (XP) Rules
● Have sustainable pace (no overtime)
● Have people work on different modules to learn
● Pair Programming
● Coding standards
● Integration
● Create automated test suite
● Write a test to replicate the bug

15. QUESTIONS?

16. Extra Slides

17. Waterfall pros
● Produces what is specified
● Supports large teams
● High resource efficiency
● Clear division of labour

18. Waterfall cons
● Results delivered by the end of project cycle
● Requires a lot of documentation
● Everyone has very narrow view of the project
● Scope is very inflexible
● Gives an illusion of control

19. Scrum
● Alternative project management technique
● 3 main roles
– Team (7+-2)
– Scrum Master, facilitator, team support
– Product Owner, customer representative

20. Scrum concepts
● Product Backlog
● Sprint Backlog
● Scrum board / Burndown chart

21. Scrum activities
● Sprint planning/planning poker
● Sprint / Daily Scrum
● Demonstration / Retrospective

22. Task break down
● User stories
● Story estimate by team
● Story broken down into tasks

23. Resources
● http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules.html
● http://www.implementingscrum.com/

24. Laws
● “adding manpower to a late software project
makes it later” Brook's law